HART v. WAYNE COUNTY

Docket No. 19285.

61 Mich. App. 188 (1975)

232 N.W.2d 678

HART v. WAYNE COUNTY

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided May 28, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Thomson, for plaintiff.

Aloysius J. Suchy, Corporation Counsel, and David R. Kaplan, Assistant Corporation Counsel, for Wayne County.

Robert Reese, Corporation Counsel, and Maureen P. Reilly and John E. Cross, Assistants Corporation Counsel, for the City of Detroit.

Alphonso R. Harper, Judicial Assistant, for intervening defendants, judges of the Recorder's Court.

Samuel Brezner, for Judges Donald S. Leonard and Joseph E. Maher.

Fenton, Nederlander, Dodge, Barris, Gribbs, Ritchie & Crehan, P.C., for Judges Samuel H. Olsen and Robert J. Colombo.

S. Allen Early, Jr., for Judge Clarence Laster, Jr.

Harrison, Friedman & Roberson, P.C., for Judge Michael J. Connor.

Before: BRONSON, P.J., and McGREGOR and CARLAND, JJ.


Leave to appeal granted, 394 Mich. 780.

BRONSON, P.J.

The County of Wayne has funded portions of the salaries of Detroit Recorder's Court judges for 55 years. The legality of that well-established practice is challenged in this appeal.

Appellant can hardly take credit for this, however. He has failed to submit a brief in accordance with GCR 1963, 813. We have been given a sheaf of papers labeled "brief...

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